A method for hosting and exhibiting virtual speed-dates between paired participants over a web-based platform for interactive display to viewers in a serialized show format. The platform is configured to simultaneously depict all participants live streams to viewers simultaneously. Speed-dates are limited by a timer, whereby, upon expiration of the timer, the participants encounter a selection screen in which they decide to “couple,” “connect,” or “cut,” indicating their level of desire in seeing their date again in a subsequent episode of the show. Participants are eliminated from the group of participants in accordance with the amount of people with whom they “couple” or “connect.”
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2. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of viewers exceeds 1000.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein upon both paired participants selecting “couple” from the selection screen, the paired participants are matched together as confirming both participants are interested in pursuing each other romantically.
7. The method of claim 5, wherein upon one of the paired participants of the speed-date selecting “cut” on the selection screen, the server computer is instructed to alter the algorithm to decrease the likelihood of the paired participants from encountering a speed-date in future dates.
8. The method of claim 5, wherein upon presentation of the selection screen by the virtual machine to the participants, mouse coordinates of the participant computers are relayed to the virtual machine such that they are recreated as a remote mouse cursor which is overlaid onto the selection screen such that the viewers may view the mouse movements of the participants during their selection on the selection screen.
9. The method of claim 5, the platform displaying a live, text-based chat to both viewers and participants, facilitating communication between participants and viewers during a speed-date.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein upon presentation of the selection screen by the virtual machine to the participants, mouse coordinates of the participant computers are relayed to the virtual machine such that they are recreated as a remote mouse cursor which is overlaid onto the selection screen such that the viewers may view the mouse movements of the participants during their selection on the selection screen.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the number of viewers exceeds 1000.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the number of viewers exceeds 5000.
18. The method of claim 15, wherein the number of viewers exceeds 10,000.
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